End-of-term Jury
Join us tomorrow from 10 on at 37 Bedford Square, First Floor Front, for a day-long discussion with guests Charles Rice, Adrian Lahoud, Douglas Spencer, and Thomas Weaver. This year’s theme – the Grand Domestic Revolution – will be explored through 13 theses. The researches will touch a broad range [...]
Architecture d’accompagnement: housing versus public space in the age of government.
Seminar in Diploma 14′s Unit Space, Tuesday, November 26, at 4 pm. Architecture d’accompagnement, or formulaic architecture, developed in Paris between the 1600s and the 1800s – a period marked by the emergence of modern government models. Accompagnement is a simplified classicism, devoid of figurative details and reduced to its [...]
Domestic Architecture and the Emergence Architecture as a profession in the 16th century.
Seminar on Tuesday, October 26, at 5 pm, Ground Floor Back Room, 33 Bedford Sq. Domestic architecture – the architecture of houses – has never been the obvious locus of action for architects, neither today, nor when architecture as a profession was born. Before the 16th century architectural expertise was [...]
The Facade: From Wall to Project
Seminar on Tuesday, October 22, Studio 2, 4 pm. If in ancient European and Mediterranean cultures the domestic environment had been hidden and protected by blank walls with little or no architectural features addressing the space of circulation, in the Middle Ages the rise of a new ethos produced an [...]
Dip14 book on Sacred Space out in Spring 2014
Diploma 14′s book Rituals and Walls, based on the work of the academic year 2013-2014 on sacred space, will be published by AA Publications in Spring 2014. Fourteen projects – from an interfaith school in Strasbourg to a mosque prototye for Moscow, from an Islamic Women’s Centre in Paris to [...]